High severity · published Aug 2, 2016
CVE-2016-1238
(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6)…
7.8
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 56% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
23; 24 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.0 · source: NVD
PE
Perl · Perl
1.0.15; 1.0.16; 5.000; 5.000o; 5.001; 5.001n; +34 more · source: NVD
SP
Spamassassin · Apache
before 3.4.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1238
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1238
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00002.html
Issue Tracking
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/cee96d52c39b1e7b36e1c62d38bcd8d86e9a41ab
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3628
Third Party Advisory
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238271.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92136
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036440
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